{"id":305,"date":"2009-02-09T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T08:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2009-02-09T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T08:27:10","slug":"grandmother-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Grandmother of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/grandma_lupe_blog.jpg' title='grandma_lupe_blog.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/grandma_lupe_blog.jpg' alt='grandma_lupe_blog.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\nMy great-grandmother in the red cape. <strong>Boyle Heights, 1975<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of all my family photos, this is definitely one of my favorites. It is of my great-grandmother Guadalupe Martinez (originally from Pastor Ortiz, Michoacan) at a presentation in her honor. She won out over the other women (presumably, her court) to be crowned &#8220;Grandmother of the Year.&#8221; According to family stories, the other ladies weren&#8217;t too happy about losing. It&#8217;s kinda apparent, no?<br \/>\nThe dance took place at the CSO Center on Brooklyn Ave (Cesar Chavez) across the street from San Antonio de Padua church. I imagine my great-grandmother&#8217;s revered role as the founder of the Guadalupana&#8217;s club at the church and provider of the feria tamales and bunuelos contributed to her anointment. Strangely, her involvement with this church would benefit me even after her death and in the most unlikely of ways.<\/p>\n<p>I love the band. You can just make out their name, The Fairlang, artfully done in the infamous <a href=\"http:\/\/markbattypublisher.com\/servlet\/book_view?number=40\">Mexican Blackletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My great-grandmother in the red cape. Boyle Heights, 1975 Of all my family photos, this is definitely one of my favorites. It is of my great-grandmother Guadalupe Martinez (originally from Pastor Ortiz, Michoacan) at a presentation in her honor. She won out over the other women (presumably, her court) to be crowned &#8220;Grandmother of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=305\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grandmother of the Year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,15,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}